Recently, in response to the Church of Scientology forcing a video withdrawn from YouTube, the entity known as Anon declared war on Scientology.

This here is the declaration of war released by Anon.

RESOLUTION Declaring that a state of war exists between the "Church" of Scientology and the Internet and making provisions to prosecute the same. Whereas the "Church" of Scientology has committed unprovoked acts of war against the Internet and Society as a whole; and

Whereas, such acts continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the security and freedom of the Internet and it's users; and

Whereas, such acts render it both necessary and appropriate that Anonymous exercise its rights to self-defense and to seek out lulz: Therefore be it Resolved by Anonymous in /i/ and /b/ assembled,

That the state of war between the Anonymous and the "Church" of Scientology which has thus been thrust upon the Internet is hereby formally declared; and

That Anonymous is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire force of Anonymous and the resources of the Internet to prosecute war against the "Church" of Scientology; and

To bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of Anonymous are hereby pledged.

What are the opinions of the scholars on this event? Is it meaningless and trivial? Is it important? What will be the outcome?

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For those uninformed, the most comprehensive source of info, if biased, is the chanology entry on ED.

Whoever this Anon is, he/she/they have picked a choice morsel for trolling. Given that just about everyone hates Scientology, the LOLZ will be pretty worthwhile.

Let us begin with Zeus, whom we mortals never leave unspoken.
For every street, every market-place is full of Zeus.
Even the sea and the harbour are full of this deity.
Everywhere everyone is indebted to Zeus.
For we are indeed his offspring.

Anon isn't really a someone, but the collective identity of the people who frequent such anonymous image boards like 4Chan and 7Chan.

Well, I do know that the war is strictly limited to the internet. On the 10th there will be...something, at Scientologist Churches worldwide. I myself will be joining in at the Houston Church of Scientology on that date, one, because I support the cause, two, curiousity.

In addition, they have brought down the main Scientologist site. So at the very least, they are causing the Church time and money (the latter of which they have plenty, and I doubt there has been a dent).

My personal opinion? Anon will get bored and move on. That's how the entity usually works. It may last longer this time, but it will get...bored. Will it have an effect? The church will get annoyed, it will suffer some negative PR, and maybe spend some money. Perhaps the Church's misdeeds will be brought to light to more people than all ready.

Note: I say something, because while its technically a protest/demonstration, that wholeconcept doesn't exactly...fit /b/tards.

"Ford, you are turning in to an infinite number of penguins. Stop it."

I've been following this too, and it has been pretty interesting. Not only have they caused a lot of trouble with the main site, they have been messing with affiliated sites. They have hacked site databases and computers and published pretty bad correspondence and private 'church' documents and proceedures. 'They', at this point, probably now includes hackers previously unaffiliated as the 'Church' of Scientology has pissed off more than a few people in a parent's basement.

I'm personally pleased to see the results. Awareness among the internets educated is spreading rapidly and this, naturally, spills into public knowledge databases such as Wikipedia. When this is said and done they might think twice about throwing their weight around at places such as YouTube.

Sry if offend someone but i find scientology a very good get rich quick plan, i mean a "religion" that says all of our history is alien memories and all advanced technology looks like stuff from the 1950's is kind of sketchy, although most religous stories and whatnot are also, but thats better then the westboro baptist church, which make these people seem sane